8/31/15

HEYO!

So me and the other missionaries from Warnes are writing you people from Warnes this week cause there`s a protest in Santa Cruz where we normally email. Oh well, hope the internet`s good.

Our electricity box thing broke this week so we had to use flashlights a couple nights to plan and couldn`t use fans in the night...it was like we were camping! Haha, but we got it fixed and it`s good now.

We`ve been having English classes the last couple weeks. They`re really fun! I like teaching English. When people don`t pay attention I throw chalk at them and say something in English that totally doesn`t make sense so they think I`m lecturing them. For example a young man from the branch wasn`t paying much attention so I threw the chalk at him and said peanut butter turtles! Hahahah! He thought I was mad! Of course I let them know I am just having fun with them. Haha. Anyways, I usually just teach from the grammar book thing that the Latino missionaries use to learn English with a couple gospel related things but at the end I always ask if they want to learn a specific phrase. Then I teach them that phrase or a funny phrase like “to infinity and beyond” or something.

In our activity on Thursday we had a lot more people come and it was super fun! We even had a girl come who we met about two weeks ago. We haven`t really been able to teach her yet though cause she`s a girl and we need a guy to accompany us to visit her. Anyways, in the activity she told us, “Guys! Guess what?! I got baptized last week! Isn`t that great?!” We were thinking uh....we didn`t baptize you. We asked where did you get baptized? In the assembly of God church. DANG IT! Hahaha, think we need to teach the restoration to her.

Sunday was super cool. We walked all over in the morning reminding investigators to come to church and pretty much everyone said that they couldn`t this week. That frustrated us so we went to church by ourselves and this random guy came up to us in the church, explained that he was from Santa Cruz, that he had friends here in Warnes, and then proceeded to introduce us to 7 investigators! Woo! they`re pretty much all for the other Warnes missionaries, but it was super cool to have that happen! Love seeing members share the gospel!

Alright I`m almost out of time but I want you all to know that I love you and that bear... beats... BattlestarGalactica.

Elder Buma

8/24/15

Hey everyone! I hear classes are starting again! Exciting!

Another great week in paradise!

So this week was good. The activities didn´t have a ton of people go but it was the first week with them on tuesdays and thursdays but they were a lot of fun! we played games, shared spiritual messages and helped members make friends with others. We even had Ramon and Guadalupe come! They´re progressing really well and want to get baptized but still don´t want to get married yet. Well they want to get married but their parents don´t want them to get married too much...they´re awesome though and I really believe that they´ll get married here soon.

So I got bit by a monkey this week... HAHAHAHAHA! I got bit by a monkey! hhahahahahahaha! His name is Tincho and we´re totally homies now. So me and my comp decided to go to Barrio Las Barreras this week. We didn´t know anyone there but we heard that there are a couple less actives that live there so we decided to go. It´s a ways aways but super pretty. Anyways, we got there and just started walking and we saw this monkey chained to a tree in this guys yard. I like monkeys so we decided to contact the house. The guy who lives there was drinking a beer and was chewing coca but he was super nice. You could tell that he felt awkward at first like everyone else when we contact them. We broke the ice by talking about his monkey and he let us into his yard and took a couple of pictures. We kept talking and I was actually gaining confidence with the monkey and the monkey held my hand! It was so cute! I felt awesome! But then I took my attention away from the monkey and started talking to the guy about church and stuff and it was a really good conversation when all of a sudden the monkey jumped on my shoulder! He wasn´t upset or anything, he just wanted to sit on my shoulder, but it scared me a bit so I bent down really quick and the monkey almost fell so he bit my shoulder a little bit to keep from falling. I refuse to believe that he wanted to bite me. We´re best buddies! haha.

Anyways, so after the monkey bit me I took down the guys info, his phone number and stuff and then we shook his hand and left. Super chill. But after we left I told my comp. I think we should go to the hospital, haha. So we went to Montero to get the bite cleaned and then we had to go all the way to Santa Cruz to get a rabbies shot, haha. It´s not a big bite at all and I´m totally fine. It was just funny.

This week we found some Baptists and Seventh Day Adventists to talk with. I actuallly like finding people that are pretty strong Baptist or something. They listen more intently and always have really good questions. We´ll see what happens there.

Good things are happening. The Lord is pouring blessings upon us every day. Thanks for the love. Talk to you later.

Elder Buma

8/17/15

Hi everyone!

Alright i don`t have a lot of time as usual so sorry if this is really short.

First off i`d like to thank my fam for being awesome and being sealed in the temple. We visit a lot of families here that have had lots of problems with infidelity and other things and it`s really hard to see them go through some of their famliy problems. It`s really cool to see some of them beat their problems like the family Vasques. they were suspended and stuff a long time ago but now they`re getting married and have plans to go to the temple next year. So that was cool but i`m really grateful for never having problems like that in my fam. Love you guys!

I had to go to immigrations this week which was unfortunate. It took us a good 2 hours to get there and then we had to sit there and wait foreeeeeever just to sign one paper and leave. I`ve been illegal here for a good 10 months now so the mission`s gonna have to pay quite a bit of monay but that`s ok. I just hope i don`t get tossed in bolivian prisson haha!

It was cool going to immigrations, I got to see a lot of my Elder Buddies and chat with them a bit but it really messed up our day. We were going to meet with junior to remind him to go to church and stuff but we had to go to immigrations and we haven`t been able to find him since... darn it!

Guadalupe and ramon are still coming to church which is really cool. They really like the church and the gospel and the members are fellowshiping them really well. Ramon just needs to listen to the good words of my gal beyonce. If you like it you should have put a ring on it... Get married!

Anyways so we`re still working with them and the others. Elder Olmos, my companion, is super cool and is teaching me a lot so I have a lot of hopes for this transfer.

Anyways, i`m pretty much out of time but i want you all to know that i love you!

Talk to you next week!

Elder Buma

8/10/15

Hi everyone!

Alright i don`t have a lot of time as usual so sorry if this is really short.

First off i`d like to thank my fam for being awesome and being sealed in the temple. We visit a lot of families here that have had lots of problems with infidelity and other things and it`s really hard to see them go through some of their famliy problems. It`s really cool to see some of them beat their problems like the family Vasques. they were suspended and stuff a long time ago but now they`re getting married and have plans to go to the temple next year. So that was cool but i`m really grateful for never having problems like that in my fam. Love you guys!

I had to go to immigrations this week which was unfortunate. It took us a good 2 hours to get there and then we had to sit there and wait foreeeeeever just to sign one paper and leave. I`ve been illegal here for a good 10 months now so the mission`s gonna have to pay quite a bit of monay but that`s ok. I just hope i don`t get tossed in bolivian prisson haha!

It was cool going to immigrations, I got to see a lot of my Elder Buddies and chat with them a bit but it really messed up our day. We were going to meet with junior to remind him to go to church and stuff but we had to go to immigrations and we haven`t been able to find him since... darn it!

Guadalupe and ramon are still coming to church which is really cool. They really like the church and the gospel and the members are fellowshiping them really well. Ramon just needs to listen to the good words of my gal beyonce. If you like it you should have put a ring on it... Get married!

Anyways so we`re still working with them and the others. Elder Olmos, my companion, is super cool and is teaching me a lot so I have a lot of hopes for this transfer.

Anyways, i`m pretty much out of time but i want you all to know that i love you!

Talk to you next week!

Elder Buma

8/3/15

Hola!

Oh my goodness, I almost forgot to do the big email! Uh well, I´m gonna try to do this fast.

So transfers were this week. I´m still in Warnes but now I´m with Elder Olmos. He´s from Cochabamba and he´s 24 years old. Super cool guy. Super smart and humble. Pretty funny too. We almost have the same amount of time in the mission which is really cool too. I was kind of tired of being with younger elders, haha.

Well Teresa, Guadalupe, and Ramon were able to attend church again this week so that´s super cool. We were actually in a lesson with them this week and they gave us milk. I think I´m turning into my good ol’ poppy cause I looooove drinking milk now. The only problem was that there were chunks in the milk! Oh my goodness so nasty. Holy cow! I´m just glad that we drank the milk after teaching them because I think I would have puked if we had taught after drinking the milk. But it´s all good now, haha!

We were able to meet this guy named Junior Hurtado the other week in the Mercado and we´ve passed by his place a couple times this week. He´s super nice but pretty shy. The first time we taught him to pray it was a little awkward and quiet but this last time yesterday when he prayed he sounded super calm and as if he were talking to a friend. I could really feel the spirit in that prayer. I think I had come to take prayer for granted and that humble, sincere prayer really reminded me of the importance of prayer and the power of prayer.

Yesterday we had a family home evening with the Lopez family and it was pretty fun until they brought out the refreshments. It was Peruvian Jello; thing made out of purple corn. I´m not sure if you guys are familiar with purple corn but it was not that good for me.

Well I got to go! Love you!

Elder Buma 

7/27/15

Hello everyone!

I just want to say thanks to Jake for getting me that package! thanks!

So this week was pretty cool. We met a few new investigators who are super cool and one even came to church, his name is davíd. he´s 15 and super nice, we´ll see how that goes.

This week we went to go pick up Guadalupe, Ramon and Teresa for church and they came but we got to church pretty late and we missed sacrament... Dang! oh well.

We had a pretty cool activity this week. We played BINGO! haha i know it sounds boring but when you have cool prizes like we had and end up just throwing prizes out into the crowd like a football cheerleader it gets pretty exciting. hahahaha! it was pretty fun.

So this week is transfers so we´ll see what happens. I bet I´m staying though. Alright well I´m pretty much out of time but i just wanted you all to know that i love you and i love getting the updates! thanks!

Elder Buma

7/20/15

Hello!

Alrighty, what to tell, what to tell.

I bought an awesome outfit last Monday.

We had another baptism of a couple of little kids in the branch, which was awesome but they were all eight year olds from the branch, not investigators. It was interesting though cause the families asked me and my comp to do the baptisms cause the dad didn`t want to. We tried everything to get him to do it but he just wanted us to do it. That was a little sad but they were still super happy that their kids got baptized. It was kind of funny though.When I baptized one of the girls she came up super fast and basically yelled QUE FRIO (how cold)! Haha that was cute.

We finally got Teresa to come to church! She`s an investigator that`s super nice but she goes to the ChurchCristo Viene. She knows a lot of the bible and likes everything that we teach her but sometimes she starts dominating the lesson so it`s hard to get to actually teach sometimes. But she came! The kind of funny thing though was in gospel principles the topic was the sacrament and the teacher is nice but she doesn`t know the bible or how to teach super well. Meanwhile, Teresa knows the bible like the palm of her hand and just gave straight waska... um, she lectured the teacher. Like about how we use water instead of wine and some other stuff. So the teacher asked me to kind of take over so I got up and used a scripture from Doctrine and Covenants 27 and explained the doctrine a little more. But it ended up ok and she really liked church. However, the sisters in the branch said she started giving this evangelical lecture to everyone in Relief Society... oh dear.

Well I think that`s it for this week. I hope you all enjoy this wonderful week of summer.